SHAARAY TEFILA TALKS PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH AUTHOR JOANNE INTRATOR

Please join us for conversation with SUMMONS TO BERLIN  author and psychiatrist Joanne Intrator and Rabbi Dennis Ross at Temple Shaaray Tefila. 

Wednesday, March 12th

7:00 pm Welcome & Refreshments 
7:30 pm Discussion with Joanne Intrator and Rabbi Ross
8:30 pm Book Signing 

This event is free but a donation of $18 is suggested

About Dr. Joanne Intrator

Dr. Joanne Intrator’s memoir, SUMMONS TO BERLIN describes the challenges she faced and overcame during her decade-long search for restitution for 16 Wallstrasse, a major center city Berlin building, stolen from her family by the Nazis in 1938. Her story has been featured in international magazine articles and museum exhibits.

Joanne spent nine years confronting German bureaucrats, who buried her case at the bottom of the pile. At the outset, her lawyer advised Joanne to split the potential proceeds with the daughter of the Nazi who had stolen the building and claimed it was hers. She maintained Joanne’s grandfather lost the building because her grandfather was an incompetent businessman, not because he was Jewish. If Joanne did not negotiate with this woman, Joanne’s successful outcome challenged in Appeals Court by her opponent and her family would “probably be dead” by the time she won. Joanne discovered that her building manufactured Nazi flags -- and one million yellow stars – the same stars that were likely sewn onto her grandfather’s clothes as her grandparents were in Berlin.

Dr. Intrator was born and raised in New York City. As a psychiatrist for 40 years, she conducted groundbreaking research on brain imaging of psychopaths published in The Journal of Biological Psychiatry and are frequently cited. The New Yorker magazine wrote about her research. Joanne has stated that her expertise in psychopaths helped her to understand and confront the German bureaucrats and gain restitution for her family's building. Her journey has been the subject of news articles, television interviews, and museum exhibits. She has written for The Journal for The Study of Antisemitism, Ästhetik & Kommunikation (Berlin), Women Writers. Women(‘s) Books, and she writes a blog on psychopathy for Psychology Today.